One of my friend had 354,000kms on his 85 GSL-SE before she went. I drove the **** out of that car really bad redline at every shift and like dounts and fish tail. Really idiot and i tolled him to take it easy so many times but nope. That was a Beautifel SE on of the niced id seen. Now the kid is a loser so W/e ***

 

biggest difference (In my opinion), Mac OS X => Unix Based? = Stable?
OS 9 and less => remember the "Type 2 or 3 Error"? <= Memory?
While Windows has been know for it poor memory handling as well until recent improvement with its XP.

I like Mac or Apple's Innovations.

MS is a copy catter (Spell?) but somewhat practical & especially PC is CHEAPer.

Get back to the original topic:
Some of you guys might remember, my car went at 110000 last month. I did floor it often and made mistake letting jiffy lube put in Mobile 1 Synthetic, but I still dont' think it should have happened. I am getting a motor in a week and hopefully it will last a bit longer this time. Any tips on how to take care of your or our 12A? I am also watching the Initial-D lately, can't wait to get my 85 alive, and start mod a bit.

 

Well, I guess to be a bit supportive toward this post......even though I blew my motor, and Honduhs might be nice, however I teasured my 7 instead of even considering a civic is simply because of a taste.

 

How did a conversation about COMPUTERS get into this thread about Milage

 

Holy ****. I can't believe that little joke about PC verses Mac started by whoever kept on going three pages. You'd think people wouldn't be so protective about a machine!

Hint for life: Laugh a little... just a little.

 

How is this "fool" comming along by the way? Has he seen the light?

 

Hint for you - read up before you spout ignorance. You helped keep it going with your "Apple ripped off Microsoft" comment

We haven't heard back from asking-for-help guy beyond his saying that the ignorant guy has left him alone now that ignorant guy knows asking-for-help guy is here on these forums.

 

Ok, I will laugh a little...
HHaHaHaHa.....

Oops, did I laugh too much?

Take it easy guys.

 

BTW, Microsoft now owns a significant portion of Apple. Thus it's a mute point what computer, OS, etc. you buy, they both practically run the same programs. Some run better on one platform than the other, but the differences between the two are so low level, that with the right compiling, microsoft and mac could make OSX run on a intel, and XP on an apple just fine.

When it comes down to graphics rendering, it really depends more on how the program was designed. I've done some low level optimiztions of simple rendering tools in some of my CS classes, and you could optimize it in such a way that it ran great on one processor, but crap on another, just due to the caching differences between the two. And that was running the same OS (Unix).

Anyway, more on topic - my SE has 172k on it on the original engine, and it still runs OK. Everything but the engine is falling apart on it, and will soon be parked, the suspension put on my 13BT powered beast, and the rest parted out, but it still gets me from here to there on a daily basis.

 

On Topic: 1985 12A engine, 176K miles, Still runs although needs ignitor... Will rebuild soon because you can't X-Ray port an engine... Overheated twice due to welds in the radiator popping. No problems due to overheating, but I noticed the temp guage early.

Off Topic: https://www.rx7club.com/forum/showth...hreadid=215651

If you'd like to reply to my Off Topic, please reply there.

 

Hey i have an 85 GS. Got it from a friend ORig motor went out at 100k miles and the girl that owned it said she never even checked the oil other than when it got changed. The car NEVER broke down once according to her and she was the orig owner. It now has 130k miles on it and even the orig AC works!!!! its a GREAT car!!! and it drives/runs AWSOME!!! ONly complaint i have is that it gets cold in the winter here and until the car warms up it really runs poopy and sometimes stalls. BUt i think thats just how rotorys are especially the carborated ones.

 

Good N/A rotorys are awsome motors. I didnt know what to think either until i read all these posts on this board, there were an overwhelming amount of good things i read about them and reliability and i went out and bought one. An 85 with 130,000k. the orig motor went to 110k. 20k on the new motor and still no problems mechanical OR electrical. Its now my daily driver comming from a 2002 sentra SPEC-V and in all honesty the rx-7 is just more fun to drive too!!! (FWD does not equal sports car!!))

 

Sorry, another fallicy here. Back in the Amelio days, the lawsuit Apple filed against MS for ripping off the GUI was settled out of court. MS paid Apple $300 million, and was given $100 million of NON-VOTING, NON-CONTROLLING stocks. It was an investment to show the courts that they were playing nice. Back then Apple had less than $100 million in the bank. Apple currently has over $4.5 Billion in cash and short-term assets...

Current reality - MS owns less than 3% of Apple stocks and has no say in business policies

XP runs great on the Mac under emulation, but due to the nature of CISC vs RISC, including the big endian vs little endian nature of x86 vs PowerPC, it would take a lot more than minor tweaks. That being said, Apple apparently has an Intel binary of Mac OS X. I think it'll be many years before (or if) it ever sees the light of day - it was likely just a bet-hedging back when Motorola started faltering.

 

I thought you guys were car geeks!

 

I transcend my friend...

I'm a car geek, a computer geek, an astronomy geek... etc, etc, etc...

 

As far as the ownership of Apple, your might be right. I only know what I've heard (albeit from a fairly reliable, and unbiased source -- a software engineer that uses MAC and Linux much more than Windows). I mean, seriously if you can buy MS office for MAC, MS has to have some incentive to make office for mac. Office is practically what sells windows anyway. In the past not only would MS not want to develop office for their chief competitor, but apple wouldn't have given them the code to work from.

As far that the RISC vs. CISC issue, sure the compilers will have to be significantly different, but if you follow much of the current technology of Intel's and AMD's CISC x386 chips, you'll find internally that they're practically RISC, because the use mu-ops, long pipes, fully out of order processing, etc., etc., etc. Little endian and big endian too is just a matter of how a compiler handles things. Unix will run on practially any platform, so I'm sure MS, and Apple could get their own to port to other platforms, it they wanted.

 

311,000km and still going on the original GSL-SE engine.

I think the body is going to rot out before the engine lets go.

 

My 80. 225.000 miles, My 82. 164.900 My 85. 82.000miles My 80 changed the carb. My 82 jst changed the clutch & master & slave. My 85 my seats.

 

I'm titled "No Life" now! What's next? I want a custom avatar!

Sorry about this useless post

FS

 

My Fathers car was at 315,000 mi when it went with a puff of smoke, And mine has over 120,000 and sounds great at 130 MPH!

 

156,587 running like a champ except for a vacuum leak and an idel problem nothing major though

 

170,000 + still running strong!

 

my friend blew his motor up at 330,000 miles at the dragstrip and it was running as fast as mione with Mikuni and header.He had stock crap and could hang with me.That was hi9s last run though.

 

OK WTF!?!?!?!?! One second I'm reading about rotary reliability and the next i'm Knee deep in Mac bullshit! lol On a side note, If Steve and Steve, (get it,lol) hadn't sold the now named windows O.S. to bill gates for I think 1700 or was it 17 thousand? You guys wouldn't even be having this conversation. If the mac ever goes down you prabably can pinpoint it back to this very mistake.

 

Not true. You don't know the evil empire very well. Bill would have just stolen it. (As he actually did anyway)

160,000 on original 81 engine. 193,000 on original 85 engine still going strong